Hepberg, 28/12/1989
Welcome
to
FastCopy III
Faster than Light!
0. Program-Information
Concept, Design, Documentation and Development
Martin Backschat
Beta-Tester
Rupert Kaiser & "Gogl", Manfred Messner und Stephan Englhardt
Designer of the title picture
Ralph Seth
Thanks to
Everybody, who supports the development of FastCopy III,
Everybody, who critizes contructively,
Everybody, who financially supports the project,
Everybody, who financially supported FastCopy 2.00, and
thus indirectly also supports the III.rd part
1. Installation
FastCopy runs as a program and as an accessory. To start it from
the Desktop, call it >>FCOPY_3.PRG<<. To make TOS recognize it as
an accessory call it >>FCOPY_3.ACC<< and put it on the boot-disk
(A: for drives and C: for harddisks).
2. How to use
You find a brief Survey of all functions FastCopy offers you
in main menu under >>Help<<. But to exhaust the variety of all
functions you need the manual. For 50 Deutsch-Mark (30 US $
respectively) I'll send you an printed english manual and the
latest version of FastCopy on disk. In addition to that you'll be
registered in the update-list, that means you'll always get a new
version immediately.
3. How to copy
A) FastCopy is Freeware. That means everbody is allowed to copy
and use it for free. Only PD-/Freeware-mailing services selling
this software have to pay once 250 Deutsch-Mark (150 US $
respectively) for the license. Who doesn't and sells FastCopy III
makes himself liable to prosecution and will be charged. This is
because it is unfair to get rich of somebody's else work while
this somebody doesn't even get a penny.
B) You are only allowed to copy FastCopy as a package. This
package has to contain the following files:
FCOPY_3.PRG - The copy program itself
and/or
FCOPY_3.ACC
FCOPY_3.DOC - Text in German (Wordplus)
FCOPY_3.TXT - Text in German (ASCII)
FCOPY_3.EDC - Text in English (Wordplus)
FCOPY_3.ETX - Text in English (ASCII)
4. What to do in case of...
For all not having read the manual, here some useful hints:
What to do in case of...
...the format function doesn't work, too many damaged tracks?
Some drives, especially older 5¬-inch ones, may have
problems with the Fast-Format. In this case I recommend
to switch to the saver normal Format-mode "Format
Dest." by <q>.
...copying a strange disk format (e.g. Spectre-128, Minix)?
In case of formats uncompatible to TOS (and MS-DOS)
always switch off the automatic configurations
recognition ("Read Disk Conf.") by <r>. Read the manual
of the emulator (e.g. Spectr unreadable. In this
case switch off to the "Get Sector: all"-mode by
<g>. In this mode FastCopy ignores the FAT.
...the step rate is always set to 3 ms?
The step rate is installed with help of TOS.
FastCopy only supports the official versions 1.0, 1.2
(Blitter-TOS), 1.4, 1.6 (STE) and later. Different
(inofficial) versions may cause problems. In this case
you can't set up the step rate. Solution: Boot an
official TOS.
The final Note:
Everbody, for who FastCopy is a precious tool for working with
the ST, can send their donations and/or their contructive critic
to
Martin Backschat
Bergstr. 16
8071 Hepberg
West Germany